Many parents may not realize it, but an increasingly popular drug that teenagers are using to get high may be sitting in the medicine cabinet: cough medicines. Both in liquid and gel-cap forms, they're highly accessible and cheap and come with little social stigma attached. But, like other over-the-counter drugs, they can be dangerous when abused. For information on what to look for and how to react to cough medicine abuse, parents can tap a new resource: FiveMoms.com.
"I'm sorry," the doctor said to the patient in the hospital bed. "It's my fault you have to stay another couple of days. I didn't monitor you carefully enough after starting you on that new drug, and you had a severe allergic reaction." A doctor said he was sorry? The patient faints.
ABC News is reporting on its website that terrorists are planning a sophisticated attack on U.S. military personnel or tourists in Germany, citing both U.S. and German officials, a story that has been quickly parroted on cable news stations.
AP - U.S. and Iraqi troops searched house-to-house and combed fields with their bare hands Saturday after American troops and their Iraqi interpreter came under attack in the notorious "triangle of death" south of Baghdad, leaving five dead and three missing.
AP - A political crisis threatening President Gen. Pervez Musharraf exploded into violence Saturday when clashes between pro-government gunmen and opposition supporters killed at least 36 people and thwarted a major rally against military rule.
AP - Mullah Dadullah, the Taliban's most prominent military commander, was killed in fighting in southern Afghanistan with Afghan and NATO troops, officials said Sunday.
Dense smoke that closed parts of two major interstates was expected to keep choking Floridians and traffic through Sunday. The smoke was generated by huge wildfires burning in northern Florida and southern Georgia. Police reported several crashes before the roads were closed.
U.S. troops were on the hunt in a volatile region south of Baghdad for three U.S.-led military personnel, who went missing after an insurgent attack today that killed five others in an eight-person force. The U.S. military said attackers struck the U.S.-led forces -- seven U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi Army interpreter -- 12 miles west of Mahmoudiya.
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